Exhibitions

2016

Nick Cave Selected Exhibitions in 2016:
Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art, North Adams, Massachusetts (solo)

2015 - 2016

Nick Cave Selected Exhibitions in 2015-2016:
Showing Off: Recent Modern & Contemporary Acquisitions, Denver Museum of Art, Denver, Colorado
Us Is Them, The Pizzuti Collection, Columbus, Ohio
Disguise: Masks and Global African Art, Seattle Art Museum, travels to: Fowler Museum at UCLA, October 18, 2015 – March 13, 2016; Brooklyn Museum, April 29 – September 18, 2016
Affinity Atlas, The Frances Young Tang Teaching Museum and Art Gallery at Skidmore College, Saratoga Springs, NY

2015

Nick Cave Selected Exhibitions in 2015:
Nick Cave: Here Hear, Cranbrook Art Museum, Bloomfield Hills, Michigan (solo)
Piece by Piece: Building a Collection, Selections from the Christy & Bill Gautreaux Collection, Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art, Kansas City, Missouri
Re:Purposed, The John & Mable Ringling Museum of Art, State Art Museum of Florida, Florida State University, Sarasota, Florida
Field, Road, Cloud: Art and Africa, Anna K. Meredith Gallery, Des Moines Art Center, Des Moines, Iowa
The Triumph of Love: Beth Rudin DeWoody Collects , Norton Museum of Art, West Palm Beach, Florida
You Love Me, You Love Me Not, Works from The Sindika Dokolo Foundation, Municipal Gallery Almeida Garrett, Oporto, Portugal
The Freedom Principle: Experiments in Art and Music, 1965 to Now, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, Illinois
Necessary Force: Art in the Police State, University of New Mexico Art Museum
Portraits and Other Likenesses from SFMOMA, Museum of the African Diaspora
Between History and the Body, The 8th Floor, New York, New York
Tyger, Tyger: Lynn Chadwick and the Art of Now, The Philip and Muriel Berman Museum of Art at Ursinus College, Collegeville, Pennsylvania
Breath/Breadth: Contemporary American Black Male Identity, Maier Museum of Art at Randolph College, Lynchburg, Virginia

2014 - 2015

Nick Cave Selected Exhibitions in 2014-2015:
Currents 109: Nick Cave, Saint Louis Art Museum, Saint Louis, Missouri (solo)
Africa Now: Political Patterns, Seoul Museum of Art, Seoul

2014

Nick Cave Selected Exhibitions in 2014:
Nick Cave, Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston (solo)
Nick Cave, The School, Kinderhook, New York (solo)
Nick Cave: Rescue and Made by Whites for Whites, Jack Shainman Gallery, New York (solo)
Encounter: Nick Cave, Kent State University, Kent, Ohio (solo)
Dries Van Noten, Les Arts Decoratifs, Paris
The First International Biennial of Contemporary Art of Cartagena de Indias, Colombia
Hidden Power in African Art, The Israel Museum, Jerusalem
More Material, Salon 94, New York
Mise En Scène, The School, Kinderhook, NY
Amerika, David Castillo Gallery
Objets: pouvoirs secrets, Passage de Retz, Paris

2013 - 2014

Nick Cave Selected Exhibitions in 2013-2014:
Black in the Abstract, Part 1: Epistrophy, Contemporary Arts Museum of Houston, Texas
Galen at the Galen, Palm Springs Art Museum in Palm Desert, California

2013

Nick Cave Selected Exhibitions in 2013:
Freeport 006: Nick Cave, Peabody Essex Museum, Salem, Massachusetts (solo)
Nick Cave: The World is My Skin, Trapholt Museum, Denmark
Nick Cave: Sojourn, Denver Art Museum, Colorado
Upsodown, New Art Center, Newtonville, Massachusetts
Seat’s Taken, Burlington Arts Center, Burlington, Vermont
Seismic Shifts: Ten Visionaries in Contemporary Art and Architecture, National Academy Museum, New York
The Abstract Impulse: Selections from the Modern and Contemporary Collections, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston
Hangzhou Triennial of Fiber Arts, Hangzhou, Zhejiang, China

2012 - 2014

Nick Cave Selected Exhibitions in 2012-2014:
Innovators and Legends: Generations in Textiles and Fibers, Muskegon Museum of Art, Muskegon Michigan, travels to: Schweinfurth Memorial Art Center, Auburn, New York, May 26–August 11, 2013; University of Kentucky, Lexington, September 8–December 1, 2013; Colorado State University, Fort Collins, January 24–April 11, 2014; Figge Art Museum, May 24– September 7, 2014

2012 - 2013

Nick Cave Selected Exhibitions in 2012-2013:
Fantastic 2012, Lille 3000, Tri Postal, Lille, France (solo)

2012

Nick Cave Selected Exhibitions in 2012:
Soundsuits, University of North Texas Art Gallery, Denton (solo)
Nick Cave, Austin Museum of Art / Arthouse at the Jones Center, Texas (solo)
Crystal Bridges Museum of Art, Bentonville, Arkansas
RE: Chicago, DePaul University Art Museum, Chicago, Illinois
Prospect.2: Works by Nick Cave and Joyce J. Scott, Newcomb Art Gallery, Woldenberg Art Center, Tulane University, New Orleans, Louisiana
No Object is an Island: New Dialogues with the Cranbrook Collection, Cranbrook Art Museum, Bloomfield Hills, Michigan
Exotic Muses: Dancers by Robert Henri and Nick Cave, Mead Art Museum, Amherst College, Amherst, Massachusetts
American Dreamers: Facing or Escaping Reality in Contemporary American Art, Center for Contemporary Culture at The Palazzo Strozzi, Florence, Italy
Migration, Arndt Gallery, Sydney
Recent Acquisitions, Weatherspoon Art Museum, Greensboro, North Carolina
African American Art Since 1950: Perspectives from the David C. Driskell Center, David C. Driskell Center, University of Maryland, College Park, travels to: Taft Museum of Art, Cincinnati, Ohio, February 15 – April 28, 2013; The Harvey B. Gantt Center for African-American Arts, Charlotte, North Carolina, January 16 – June 15, 2015; Figge Art Museum, Davenport, Iowa, September 15, 2014 – January 4, 2015; Polk Museum of Art, Lakeland, Florida, March 21 – June 29, 2015
Mediations Biennale 2012, Poznan, Poland

2011 - 2014

Nick Cave Selected Exhibitions in 2011-2014:
Remix: Selections from the International Collage Center, Samek Art Gallery, Bucknell University, Lewisburg, Pennsylvania, travels to: Katonah Museum of Art, New York, June 30–October 13, 2013; Bates College Museum of Art, Lewiston, Maine, January 17–March 21

2011 - 2012

Nick Cave Selected Exhibitions in 2011-2012:
Nick Cave: Let’s C, Fabric Workshop and Museum, Philadelphia (solo)

2011

Nick Cave Selected Exhibitions in 2011:
Meet me at the centre of the earth, SAM Seattle Art Museum, Seattle, USA (solo)
Nick Cave: Ever-After, Jack Shainman Gallery in collaboration with Mary Boone Gallery, New York (solo)
Nick Cave: For Now, Mary Boone Gallery in collaboration with Jack Shainman Gallery (solo)
Art & Fashion: Zwischen Haut und Kleid, Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg, Germany
Are You A Hybrid, Museum of Arts and Design, New York
Delphine Balley, Nick Cave, Angelika Markul, Eddie Martinez, Robert & Shana ParkeHarrison, Pierre Schwerzmann, Suzanne Tarasieve Paris, France
Pandora’s Box: Joseph Cornell Unlocks the MCA Collection, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, Illinois
Go Figure, Smart Museum, University of Chicago, Illinois
Pictoplasma: Post-Digital Monsters, La Gaité lyrique, Paris

2010

Nick Cave Selected Exhibitions in 2010:
Studio La Citta, Verona, Italy
Nick Cave: Meet Me at the Center of the Earth, UCLA Fowler Museum, Los Angeles, USA (solo)

2009

Nick Cave Selected Exhibitions in 2009:
Nick Cave: Meet Me at the Center of the Earth, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco, CA, USA
Recent Soundsuits, Jack Shainman Gallery, NY, USA
Re-AdDRESSing Identities: Clothing as Sculpture, Katonah Art Museum, NY, USA
Savannah College of Art & Design (SCAD), GA, USA
Giving Face: Portraits for a New Generation, Nicholas Robinson Gallery, New York, NY, USA

2008 - 2009

Nick Cave Selected Exhibitions in 2008-2009:
30 Americans, Rubell Family Collection, Miami, FL, USA
Fashion Forward, Islip Art Museum, Long Island, NY, USA

2008

Nick Cave Selected Exhibitions in 2008:
Of the Cloth Shore Institute of Contemporary Arts, NJ, USA
Alter-Skins, Fosdick-Nelson Gallery, Alfred, NY, USA
Second Skins, Museum of Contemporary Art, Jacksonville, FL, USA

2007

Nick Cave Selected Exhibitions in 2007:
32nd Annual Gail Silver Memorial Lecture, The RISD Museum, Providence, RI, USA

2005

Nick Cave Selected Exhibitions in 2005:
Soundsuits, Manchester Craftsmen’s Guild, Pittsburgh, PA, USA

2004

Nick Cave Selected Exhibitions in 2004:
Soundsuits, Holter Museum of Art, Helena, MT, USA

2003

Nick Cave Selected Exhibitions in 2003:
Hand Workshop Art Center, Richmond, VA, USA

2002

Nick Cave Selected Exhibitions in 2002:
The Sybaris Gallery, Royal Oak, MI, USA
Wright Museum Courtyard, Beloit, MI, USA
Macalester College of Art, St. Paul, MN, USA

2001

Nick Cave Selected Exhibitions in 2001:
Fort Wayne Museum of Art, Fort Wayne, IN, USA
Objects of Desire, Noel Gallery, Charlotte, NC, USA
AMAIGAMATIONS, Allentown Art Museum, Allentown PA, USA
NEW WORKS, Xavier, University Art Gallery, University of Cincinnati,Cincinnati, OH, USA

2000

Nick Cave Selected Exhibitions in 2000:
NICK CAVE 2000 Duane Reed Gallery, Chicago, IL, USA

1999

Nick Cave Selected Exhibitions in 1999:
NICK CAVE 2000 Duane Reed Gallery, Chicago, IL, USA
NEW WORKS, Zone One Gallery, Asheville, NC, USA

1997

Nick Cave Selected Exhibitions in 1997:
NEW WORKS, Grand Arts, Kansas City, MO, USA